Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pencad Cymru Cairn
Banwy, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Cairn
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Community
- Banwy
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.67222, -3.49609
- SAM number
- MG164
- Cadw record number
- 2010
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLlyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of WalesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Summary description and reason for designation
The following provides a general description of the scheduled monument.
The monument comprises the remains a burial cairn, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC). Pencad Cymru Cairn comprises a disturbed cairn situated on moorland at NE end of summit of broad ridge known as Pen Coed. The cairn measures c 16m and height approx. 0.9m. The centre has been mutilated, a depression c 6m across x 0.5m deep having been excavated, and a modern marker cairn has been built on the SW quadrant using loose stones from the cairn. There is no visible surrounding ditch/kerb.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial and ritual practices. The monument is an important relic of a prehistoric funerary and ritual landscape and retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of both intact burial or ritual deposits, together with environmental and structural evidence. Cairns may be part of a larger cluster of monuments and their importance can further enhanced by their group value.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Moel Ddolwen CampHillfortunder 1 mi
- Dol-HywelNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Cae'n-y-coedNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Farm Outbuilding at Cae'n-y-coedNo class recorded1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.